Best Psychological Horror Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated psychological horror games.

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When the Darkness comes When the Darkness comes is a walking simulator whose glitchy and dark tale tries to illustrate the hardships of depression and anxiety through a variety of imaginary digital landscapes.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 01 Mar 2019
Intruder The ultimate spy-vs-guards simulator. Carefully sneak your way to the objective as Intruders or use the wide variety of tactical gadgets to trap your opponents as Guards. Intruder allows for stealth, teamwork, and environmental interactions never before seen in a multiplayer game.

Price -26% 12.47€
Rating 8.8
Release 01 Mar 2019
CASE 2: Animatronics Survival CASE 2: Animatronics Survival is a horror game that is available in two modes. Online mode lets one or more players take on the role of animatronics, ready to crush everyone and everything. The other three are survivors. How did this happen? You’ll have to find out!

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.9
Release 28 Feb 2019
Pogostuck: Rage With Your Friends Climb a surreal mountain on a pogo stick and make friends along the way.

Price -72% 2.01€
Rating 8.1
Release 28 Feb 2019
Tiny Snow On the snowy mountain, in the wooden hut, we are tied together by the world. She and "I" can only love each other, we cannot be separated. Is this free affection, or manipulated love? A short visual novel with multiple endings, "Tiny Snow", a story with two girls, and you who know what love is.

Price -41% 1.94€
Rating 9.1
Release 27 Feb 2019
Moe! Ninja Girls You transfer to a school and start a new school life...all the while hiding you're a genius ninja.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 26 Feb 2019
Pacify An online co-op horror game where you pacify, weaken and capture supernatural creatures for PAH Inc. Each level has a different story, unique monsters, and multiple endings. Play single player or together with up to 6 friends. Includes proximity voice chat with fun effects.

Price -77% 1.16€
Rating 8.5
Release 22 Feb 2019
The Stillness of the Wind A quiet game of life and loss. One by one, everyone left the village for the city. Everyone, except Talma. Approaching her final years, she maintains a simple way of life tending to her homestead, surviving, subsisting, whilst increasingly disturbing letters arrive from her family in the city.

Price -95% 0.75€
Rating 7.2
Release 07 Feb 2019
How To Date A Magical Girl! You're invited to the elite academy for magical girls! Will you take the opportunity to make new friends? Learn magic? Or... Will you try to date a cute magical girl?

Price -52% 3.57€
Rating 7.6
Release 31 Jan 2019
Wet Girl This is a unique first-person spraying game. Take a water gun and spray the hot dancing girls, and when you wet their clothes completely, you win. When you see their angry expressions or hear them panting, don't stop spraying just for the sake of your pity on them.

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 30 Jan 2019
CHAOS;CHILD From the creators of the critically acclaimed STEINS;GATE comes a sensational new visual novel: CHAOS;CHILD. Set in Shibuya in 2015, a group of high school students who survived an earthquake six years ago find themselves at the center of a new series of bizarre murders in the city.

Price 20.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 22 Jan 2019
A Fisherman's Tale Bend and twist reality in A Fisherman's Tale, the mind-bending VR puzzle adventure game in which being turned upside down and inside out is not merely a play on words.

Price -88% 1.28€
Rating 8.9
Release 22 Jan 2019
Toilet Simulator Immersive and associative first person experience

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 6.7
Release 18 Jan 2019
DESOLATE DESOLATE is a first person horror survival experience. Form a research team with up to 4 players and explore an open world filled with mysteries and unsolved questions, or do it all on your own.

Price -97% 0.48€
Rating 6.6
Release 17 Jan 2019
YIIK: A Postmodern RPG Experience YIIK: A Postmodern RPG 1.5 (I.V) update with revamped battles and cutscenes. A child relinquishes her name for a birthday invite, hoping to find her brother. Alex's reality unravels, guided by a mysterious cat, witnessing a woman vanish, igniting an obsession that threatens his world.

Price -31% 13.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 17 Jan 2019
Catherine Classic Catherine: a tale of love, betrayal, and the terror of commitment. Experience the mature action-adventure-puzzle game unlike any other from the makers of the Persona series, now enhanced for PC in all its Classic glory. Is love over? Climb to the top or die trying.

Price -87% 2.72€
Rating 8.5
Release 10 Jan 2019
Heartbound Heartbound is a non-traditional role-playing game about a boy, his dog, secrets, and sanity.

Price 7.15€
Rating 8.2
Release 24 Dec 2018
Rebel Forces Are you ready to be the ultimate soldier and fight until you defeat all of your enemies?

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 20 Dec 2018
sweet pool As madness and horror devour his world, can Youji find hope amid the nightmare? Experience a bond deeper and darker than love in this unforgettable visual novel.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.4
Release 19 Dec 2018
BELOW BELOW is a solitary journey through the haunted depths of a forbidden isle. Explore. Survive. Discover.

Price 21.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 14 Dec 2018
Nya Nya Nya Girls (ʻʻʻ)_(=^・ω・^=)_(ʻʻʻ) A classic puzzle game with three difficulty levels and beautiful anime illustrations.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 08 Dec 2018
Beholder 2 You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make!

Price -97% 0.69€
Rating 8.5
Release 04 Dec 2018
Professional Fishing Are you falling asleep with a rod? Never again! Professional Fishing will never let you fall asleep! Play an amazing fishing simulator and feel like a real angler! Create your own fishing club and compete with others!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.5
Release 30 Nov 2018
Broken Reality A humorous adventure set in a 3D parody of the internet. Diverse puzzles, beautiful worlds, friends, experiences, upgrades and more, await those who 'log on'!

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 29 Nov 2018
Granny You have to escape Granny`s house...You have five days...

Price 7.79€
Rating 9.0
Release 20 Nov 2018
Bad Dream: Fever The world is covered in strange ink, an unknown plague has gathered its cruel harvest. The city seems to be completely empty and dead, but in its every corner there are manifestations of fear, sorrow, loneliness and suffering.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 15 Nov 2018
Zup! S Minimal physical puzzle with explosions

Price 1.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 15 Nov 2018
Beneath The Surface A relaxing hiatus from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Sit in a remote corner of the world, drop a line, and see what bites.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 13 Nov 2018
DISTRAINT 2 You are Price, a man who sold his humanity to get a partnership from a leading company: McDade, Bruton & Moore. DISTRAINT 2 follows on from the events of the first game. It's a sinister tale about restoring hope and finding your purpose.

Price -95% 0.47€
Rating 9.2
Release 13 Nov 2018
The Room Three Lured to a remote island, you find yourself confined within the rooms of an ominous mansion. You must draw upon all your puzzle-solving ability to navigate a series of trials devised by a mysterious figure known only as “The Craftsman”. Do you have what it takes to escape?

Price 5.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 13 Nov 2018
My Big Sister My name is Luzia...and this story isn't about me, it’s about my sister. Do you still wish to hear it?

Price -94% 0.40€
Rating 8.7
Release 09 Nov 2018
Lost in Vivo A horror game about claustrophobia. During a storm your service dog is forced down a broken sewer drain. You find the nearest sewer entrance and run in after it. Along the way you will meet others that are also stricken by abnormal or psychological fear.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 05 Nov 2018
True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 2 True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 2 is the sequel to one of the best rated horror escape games, acclaimed for its story and the atmosphere of horror mystery.

Price -16% 8.44€
Rating 8.7
Release 02 Nov 2018
At Home Alone This is a recreational healing Mini-plot game explored at home. Players will play and wander around the house from the perspective of a little girl. What will she do when she is alone? What strange stories will happen in the process, and in the process of exploration, you may find some strange secrets....

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 01 Nov 2018
The Witch's House MV A young girl, Viola, is drawn inexorably to a mysterious manor that seems to change behind her back. It is a place of pain, turmoil and death. Plumb its detestable depths and abominable history. Untangle riddles that bar your perilous path. And flee the hellish halls of The Witch’s House.

Price 14.79€
Rating 9.2
Release 30 Oct 2018
Umfend The glass sphere burst in the night of 1996. The world of distortion opened its gates and took away from you someone very important. However, in 2005, the past emerges again to hunt you once more. An atmospheric horror about love and time.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 30 Oct 2018

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